Toaster

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Toaster
Human Name
Age	About 2-8 weeks once purchased
Colony	Earth
Birth place	{{{birthplace}}}
Birth Name	"My New Toaster!"
Birth Date	{{{birthdate}}}
Callsign	Cool-Touch
Nickname	{{{nickname}}}
Introduced	[[{{{seen}}}]]
Death	When pushed aside by child, the ne'er-do-well bagel-size slotted toaster, trashed.
Parents	Dualit, Perhaps other Cylons
Siblings	Gas Oven, Blender, Microwave Oven (adopted), Toaster Oven (despised)
Children	Bagel-Sized Slotted Toasters (estranged)
Marital Status	Single (but usually double-slotted)
Family Tree	View
Role	Maker of the quintessential breakfast food, or Destroyer of the Human Race
Rank
Serial Number	{{{serial}}}
Portrayed by	ToastMaster
Toaster is a Cylon
Toaster is a Final Five Cylon
Toaster is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Toaster is an Original Series Cylon
Additional Information
Toaster in the separate continuity
[[Image:|200px|Toaster]]

The Toaster is a device on Earth renowned for its ability to make the popular breakfast food served with butter, jelly, eggs, or other confection. Toasters come in two, four, or even six-slot models.

The laudable term is also used as the nickname that the Colonials have for the Cylons, due to the fact that the original models resembled "walking chrome toasters" because of their highly reflective metal bodies and toaster slot-shaped visual sensor (Miniseries). Number Six and Helo have both expressed that they consider "Toaster" to be an offensive racial epithet ("Resistance", "Flight of the Phoenix").

The reference implies that toasting bread and other foods is just as enjoyable on the Twelve Colonies as on Earth.

Ironically enough, it is the use of a toaster to make breakfast that draws the Cylon "toasters" attention to Helo's fallout shelter (You Can't Go Home Again).

It can also be said that the Colonials enjoy the act of shopping for toasters. Lee Adama enthusiastically makes a point about shopping for toasters on Galactica, after the electricity (an important element for any toaster) goes haywire (Valley of Darkness).

It should also be noted that a few elite model toasters have been known to communicate by sending or receiving "waves."

Other models, usually produced by the Taiwanese company Crapola Inc, are well known for their infamous greetings, and unhealthy toast obsessions, that are all but guaranteed to drive their owners 'spare'. This condition often leads to an act of 'first degree toastercide', usually involving a 14lb lump hammer.

See Also

• List of terms in the Re-imagined Series

External Links

• The anthem of toast lovers everywhere, by Earth resident Heywood Banks.

• Cylons at Uncyclopedia, the Free, but Silly Encyclopedia.